We all know that during the period when New China was just founded, this land was devastated. However, Chinese backbone and ability, he will not give up this land easily. On the battlefield, those heroes who are for the hope of the nation, they shed their blood, only for the hope of the future. After the war, those heroes who survived either continued to shine, or they hid their merits and fame, left their heroic deeds behind, and began to face a new life.
In a village in Lingbao City, Henan Province, there was an old man, and the people in the village had a good impression of him, but when they asked him about his youth, they all shook their heads and said they didn't know. Only a few people would say thoughtfully, as if they had heard his name as a child, as if they were some celebrity. Even his children, after his death, helped him collect his belongings, and only from them did he discover a secret that had been buried for nearly sixty years--this old man was actually a special meritorious hero of the People's Liberation Army!
The old man's name was Lu Wenhuan. Born in 1921 in Henan. Soon after, his parents died of illness, so that at a young age, he had to work in the landlord's house to feed himself. When he became an adult, he just caught up with the Japanese invasion of China, Chinese society was chaotic and uneasy, since he saw the darkness of the old society since childhood, he resolutely threw himself into the arms of the army, in order to change China, play his part. After liberation, although the overall situation has been stabilized, there are still bandits in various places.
Among them, in the western part of henan today, there is a guy named Li Zikui, who has been harming the people and fish and meat towns since he was young. During the war, he seized the opportunity to take some idle but unwilling to go to the battlefield to do wrong, which made everyone miserable. On the eve of liberation, in order to stabilize the situation, the Kuomintang's troops were absorbed by the commander of the Kuomintang column in order to monitor his every move. Shortly thereafter, the commander of the column intended to revolt into the arms of the Communists. And Li Zikui, while pretending to agree, secretly told others, so that the entire uprising plan was destroyed.
After the whole country was liberated, he knew that if he was caught, the things he did when he was young would be enough to let himself die a dozen times. So he left his accomplice overnight and ran back to his hometown. But where can Skynet go when it is restored? The locals hated him to the bone, so they told the government officials at the time, hoping that they would arrest him. When the government learned the news, in order to avoid striking grass and snakes, it sent more than a dozen PLA fighters to arrest him overnight, including Lu Wenhuan.
But the cunning Li Zikui, feeling that someone was coming to catch him, ran into the kiln like a frightened bird, hoping to escape. But our hero did not give up, Lu Wenhuan after learning the news, he immediately broke into the kiln, just a figure, let Lu Wenhuan see, raised the gun and immediately put the gun on the back of Li Zikui's waist. Casually found a reason for the commander's meeting and deceived Li Zikui. Then the arresters outside suppressed him. In this way, the outlaws were captured alive.
Li Zikui, who was captured alive, was immediately sent to the army. And our heroes were sent off by the villagers and returned triumphantly. At the end of 1949, the army spread the news that Li Zikui had been captured alive, and the people of Henan set off firecrackers to celebrate, and Lu Wenhuan was awarded the Special Meritorious Service Medal by the Henan Military Region. In order to praise his outstanding deeds, the military region also held a special commendation meeting, wrote him in the newspaper, and gave him an award certificate. He also assured him that if he retired from the army, Lu Wenhuan could rely on this medal and award to go to work in the government.
However, two years later, although Lu Wenhuan retired from the army, he did not choose to use his past merits to ensure his life after that, but chose to rely on his own hands to support himself. In order to keep a low profile, he left his hometown and lived in another village. There, he used his status as a soldier to become a production captain and a sheriff and started a new life of his own. As time passed, fewer and fewer people knew about him. Low-key, he never took the initiative to mention the credit of his youth, but occasionally he would tell his children the story of the bandits.
Even in times of natural disasters, this old hero did not choose to use the glory of the past for temporary convenience. In his whole life, after demobilization, he never asked the state for a penny, and he always worked and ate with his own hands. Until 2011, the ninety-year-old man from Henan left safely in his hospital bed. When the children were sorting out his things, they accidentally found the award certificate that he had always treasured. Only to find that in the story he listened to when he was a child, the protagonist was his father, and this yellowed torn paper just exposed Lu Wenhuan's true identity. And this yellowed torn piece of paper is still the best evidence of that story sixty years ago.